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Photo Oops: History's Worst Political Photo Ops

This photo of Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista posing at Auschwitz in 2009 appeared on the presidential hopeful’s website in January 2012. It was quickly picked up by the Atlantic, and Vanity Fair subsequently had some fun photo-shopping the couple into photos of other depressing sites, such as Chernobyl and Ford’s theater, where Lincoln was shot.